"You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest." – Ambrose Bierce
"The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government." Henry Ward Beecher
"A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom." Bob Dylan
“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.” Woodrow Wilson.
"Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others." – William Allen White
“Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.” ― Edward Abbey
“The belief in "government" is not based on reason; it is based on faith.” - Larkin Rose
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always count on the support of Paul." – George Bernard Shaw
"When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence." – Gary Lloyd
"The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it." – John Hay
"The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic." – H.L. Mencken
"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations." – David Friedman
"Tolerance is a better guarantee of freedom than brotherly love; for a man may love his brother so much that he feels himself thereby appointed his brother's keeper." - Martin
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. – Thomas Jefferson
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. – George Washington
If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all. – Jacob Hornberger (1995)
“But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?” ― Walter E. Williams
“The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.” - Bastiat
“The State obtains its revenue by coercion, by threatening dire penalties should the income not be forthcoming. That coercion is known as “taxation...” - Rothbard
"But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong" - Bastiat
Lefties claim unions kept middle-class wages high. So how do they explain stagnant public schoolteacher salaries compared to other professions?
They would say something like "Without us you'd make LESS money!"
"It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.”
― Bastiat
Is there anything more satisfying than looking at what you just did after 2 hours of blasting dirt away with a pressure washer ?
Also, a fresh pile of wood chips sitting sitting in front of a wood chipper where a tangle of tree limbs use to be.
"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." - Bastiat
Shame we must turn to private schools
Shame we are forced to pay for public
